Sylvia Plath / Lady Lazarus

ECHO Rising Stars / Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir - Kunal Lahiry

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Recital

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Amphithéâtre - Cité de la musique

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Duration: about 1h15

Program

Distribution

Henry Purcell

Music for a while

Arr. Sir M. Tippett et W. Bergmann pour voix et piano

Aribert Reimann

I have done it again

Franz Schubert

Blondel zu Marien

Carol Anne McGowan

Do Not Stand by My Grave and Weep

Aribert Reimann

The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?

Benjamin Britten

Les Illuminations

VI. Interlude / VII. Being Beauteous

Aribert Reimann

The first time it happened I was ten.

Christian Jost

Der explodierende Kopf

María Huld Markan

Œuvre nouvelle (création)

pour soprano et piano

Aribert Reimann

There is a charge

Rebecca Clarke

The Tyger

Shawn Okpebholo

O freedom

Molly Drake

How Wild the Wind blows

Aribert Reimann

Ash, ash

Henry Purcell

By beauteous softness

Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir , soprano

Kunal Lahiry , piano

Centred around Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus, the programme crafted by Icelandic soprano Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir and American pianist Kunal Lahiry spans from the 17th century to the present, tracing themes of oppression and its counterforce: freedom.

These artists are presented by Harpa and the Luxembourg Philharmonic as part of ECHO Rising Stars.